So we began the weekly Friday-night ritual of lighting the Shabbat candles and saying the prayers over the bread and wine.

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Yet that business of the other world again no layman can perform the central act of the mass, the transformation of the bread and wine into (as Catholics believe) the body and blood of Christ.

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They are healthy and long-lived, they say, because they break bread and drink wine together.

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With a salad, a loaf of crusty Italian bread and some red wine (homemade, if you were lucky), Sunday dinner was complete.

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The FBI allowed church officials a half-hour Saturday to go inside to gather the priests' robes, the wine and bread for Sunday's service.

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Carrying bread, wine, fish and fire, the participants make their way to Oudenberg Hill, climbing to the Holy Mary Chapel on the hilltop.

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That evening it rained very hard but Pelkey and Papa were snug in a bistro, with a bottle of wine and some cheese and bread, looking down on Paris.

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The report compares prices of 160 goods and services, from cars to bread to wine, across 131 cities.

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It dishes up authentic Polish cuisine with an international twist, along the lines of beef stroganoff with chanterelle mushrooms served in a hollowed-out loaf of sourdough bread, and saddle of roe deer marinated in red wine and served with blueberry jelly.

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Each ticket comes with a full Russian-themed meal borscht, dumplings, brown bread, pickled vegetables, chicken and salmon and a glass of wine or a cocktail.

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